Travel alone to Japan despite the break-up with my gf?
Hello everyone!
Life could be better these days. I have been under a lot of pressure in my job and I felt exhausted, so I decided to take a break, to take a sabbatical of 4 months. Great plan, I negotiated a good agreement with my employer. The sabbatical was supposed to start with a Japan trip in May with my girlfriend. I was looking forward to this, since 6 months, it was the beacon of hope I needed in those tough months. Great Airbnb apartment is booked, also some nice hotels. Both of us are not so much into hostels, but I understand why my stay in one of them :) We were in Japan in 2017 and I felt alive like I haven't been for a long time. Unfortunately today, my girlfriend and I broke up. I don't want to get into the details, we both agreed on it and we decided to part in good terms. And of course don't want to do this trip, as it would not be good for us.
As you guys can probably guess now, I want to do this trip alone on my own, so the key question I am asking myself: will I be okay?
I learned to love the country in 2017 and I am highly interested in so many aspects. I love exploring, getting to know things I don't know, walking, taking pictures, enjoying the nature so and so on. I am good with planning, understanding train systems, finding locations so and so on. I basically lived alone in Toronto 6 years ago for a couple months and I remember it as a great time, I am in general fine with being alone. On the other end, I am an introvert and it feels difficult to connect with other people and I am also a little bit afraid of the language barrier. Sometimes I think too much about what kind of impression others of me have and with not speaking/understanding the language, I feel insecure. My ex-GF spoke Japanese, so we never had any issues.
I am also not sure if some shared memories of my solo trip could trigger a bad/sad feeling.
Sorry if my post is lacking focus, I basically would like to hear a few experiences from you. Did you have a trip planned with your partner and travel alone in the end? Did such a trip help you with a breakup? Did you travel into the country alone, which you have visited before with your partner?
Thank you!
Submitted March 23, 2018 at 08:50PM by Odegaron https://ift.tt/2GlSgWj
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